Degasi Voice Log #7 - Malady

BARTPlease stop fighting and listen! We're sick!

MARGUERITWhat?

PAULHow?

BARTYou've been coughing, right? Feeling itchy? Blisters?

MARGUERITYeah.

PAULThe biometrics would have warned us if we were sick.

BARTIt's something new. It's not in the database.

MARGUERITCome on then, what's it gonna do? Turn us inside out? Dissolve us into jelly?

BARTIt's an alien bacteria. It's everywhere. Every organism on this planet. It's altering our genetic code.

PAULHow are the creatures surviving if they're infected?

BARTI don't know yet.

MARGUERITWant me to cut some of 'em open for you? Find out what makes 'em tick?

BARTNo.

PAULJust tell me what you need, son. Materials? Equipment?

BARTJust... can I have some quiet? I need time to think.